Date of publication: 2025
Fees - first cycle (euro): min 1,157 - most common 2,314 - max 2,314
Fees - second cycle (euro): min 1,157 - most common 2,314 - max 2,314
Fees - note: Fees for all students (EUR 2,314 statutory fee)
National student fee
In the Netherlands every student pays a tuition fee, and there is no such thing as a free state-funded place. Most students pay the statutory fee set by the government, which in 2023/24 was EUR 2,314 a year in both the bachelor's and the master's cycle. If you are an EEA student starting your first bachelor's degree, you pay only half of the statutory fee in your first year (EUR 1,157 in 2023/24). In teacher training this half-rate applies to the first and second bachelor's year and to the first year of a teaching master's.
Students who are not entitled to the statutory fee pay an institutional fee set by the university or university of applied sciences itself, and only for them can the field of study change the price. Small-scale, intensive programmes with strict selection may charge higher fees. EEA students who choose a teaching degree or a second degree in healthcare pay the statutory fee instead of the institutional one, to attract more people to these professions.